I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
MITSKIIf I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
More Mitski Quotes
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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